My son is in 2nd grade at a dual language immersion program. His LA, Reading, and Science are taught in English with one teacher and then he switches to another teacher and gets LA, Reading, and Social studies in Spanish...math is taught by his homeroom teacher and is taught in both languages (they learn all the vocabulary of math in both and she explains everything twice). Half of his classmates are ELL (English language learners) and half are SLL (Spanish language learners with English as their first language)...there are a random few who have a different first language and English is the second and Spanish the third.
He too is at least HG if not PG (I don't believe their testing that shows PG but maybe they are right). The Spanish side of schooling is just right of a challenge. The English portion of his schooling they have had to differentiate math...they just grabbed a third grade math book and speak to him for a few minutes and he is working his way through it and works on the computer on various programs. Reading he gets different books to read than the other kids. For Language arts (writing) I believe he participates with their lessons.
They also have an intervention class each day and at the beginning of the year he was in a handwriting intervention group (made up of those who had no need of reading or math intervention but needed handwriting) and now his intervention group is once again kids who don't need reading or math intervention and they are participating in a drama group (not that the intervention at the beginning of the year cleared up his handwriting at all but they tried).
He is very happy for now. I am taking it one year at a time.
